HouseBot

none, I simply added it in housebot as a serial zwave interface (as i did with the zcu201) and it worked out of the box. But now I think about it, I did find something strange with it (or housebot) : I have a few duwi switches here (mostly collecting dust but sometimes used for testing) which do not...

Hey Dominic, To start with zwave, you only need the aeon labs USB stick http://www.aeon-labs.com/site/products/view/2/ and some device to turn on/off (light switch or plug) Because the Aeon labs stick also has an include / exclude button you dont have to buy a primary controller just to create your ...

Any idea what kind of controversy with z-wave? I made the step from X10 to zwave a bit more then a year ago and have to say: I cant complain. Havent had any missed switches no delay of more then 0.5 seconds (up to 8 seconds with X10 at my home, < .2 seconds with Z-Wave) the more products I have the ...

Indeed, I have my share of Crestron as well, worked for 3 years at an engineering firm installing this stuff. It's not easy (having to program it with binary logic) and prices are very, VERY high (if you would want to go down this road I still have second hand Crestron Processors and other hardware ...

I've been doing this myself (without HTML5) with CSS. something like: <style> .lamp { height:50px; width:50px; } .on { background:url(url/to/on/image.jpg); } .off { background:url(url/to/off/image.jpg); } </style> <div class='lamp on'>Livingroom</div> <div class='lamp off'>Garage</div> <div class='l...

The cheapest way around it is to get 2 RF tranceivers, put them on the same housecode as the stuff you want to controll downstairs, and then put 1 of them downstairs, and the other one near your pc. the signal will then go wireless between the 2 floors, just watch out for signal echo's in areas wher...

Thanks for your answer, I'm affraid it doesnt have any reboot commands or anything.. The RFID reciever is a (very) simple device, and when I monitor it with my own scripts, their dont seem to be any faults with it. It only recieves the same 4 digits followed by a space Somehow, after a while, it see...

I have a (small) problem. I'm using a serial hardware interface for an RFID reciever. The serial communication is ok, The tags submit 4 digit's followed by a space every 3 seconds. I have the interface set to use the space as seperator, but every now and then (about once a day) it starts picking up ...

You can also use multi state buttons for that ;) if value = "_" change value to "yyy" button image = "_" if value = "yyy" change value to "zzz" button image = "yyy" etc. Nice one about the dynamic panels btw, Then to think I was making mult...

Actually, Thanks to a 'feature' in just about every common browser it's also doable in VBscript. First you have VBscript open up an instance of Internet Explorer and let it navigate to the page of VLC (where the button is) When the page is loaded you let VBscript navigate that same window to the add...

Hey Scott, As far as I found there are only sellers in HongKong right now (theyre still in experimental stage so I dont think there are any resellers (yet). I bought mine from www.jiongtang.com they had pretty fast shipping ( got it within a week, from HongKong -> the Netherlands ) There are a few o...

guess i'll have to edit a few buttons then to redo some effects...
About te battery: i think its amazing... i get about 7 hours of hd movies, 4-5 with wifi and compiling.
from linux it's a nice mobile computer and in wince it makes for a nice housebot addon.

Lostdreamer

Hey all, I recently found a (near) perfect device as WiFi touchpanel (7", 600mhz, 800x480, < 300 USD) running among others, WinCE. google for SmartQ7 / SmartV7 devices But when I tried out SW remote I noticed that the transparency in PNG files wasnt working, even though it is working in explore...

In windows go to the start menu, right click My Computer and go to Manage. In the new window go to the device manager. Find the COM ports that you wish to change and double click it, Go to the tab Port Settings (I think it's called, I have a dutch version) and press the 'Advanced' button. Down in th...

Does anyone know if jQuery ( www.jquery.com ) works on iDevices? I was building a webinterface for Housebot before but stopped since a lot of mobile devices didnt support (enough) javascript. Therefor: To get the current status of a device, you would allways need to refresh the page. I made another ...